That was an invention of mine.

I told her that he was doing so just to tease her," said Mr.Manley firmly, with a note of contrition in his voice.
Mr.Flexen opened his mouth a little way.

It was a superb invention.

It left Mrs.Manley free to go into the witness-box to tell the story she had told him.

It knocked the bottom clean out of Carrington's case.
"What really happened was that Lord Loudwater was grousing about the allowance--at being reminded every six months that he had behaved like a cad.